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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD `K. WARREN, OF THREE OAKS, MICHIGAN, ASSIGN OR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE R. HOLDEN, OF MICHIGAN CITY, INDIANA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 286,748, dated October 16, 1883.

Application 'filed August 10, 1883. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern: Y or iibers of quills are put together or arranged Be it known that I, EDWARD K. WARREN, so as to give the desired taper to the whip of Three Oaks, in the county of Berrien and from its butt-end toward its tip in different State of Michigan, have invented a new and lengths to meet the requirements of manufac- 5o 5 useful Improvement in the Manufacture of turers,and are joined or bound together either Whips, of which the following is a full, clear, by cementing them or by any suitable exterand exact description. nal binding, including a wrapper of thread or My invention relates to improvements in wire wound, braided, or twisted around them, whips; and it consists of a whip having an or they may be joined together in any other 55 Io elastic filling composed of quills or quill suitable manner. In Figs. 2 and3of the drawsplints, or both, arranged` to overlap and ings they are simply shown as bound together break joints with one another and bound toby winding a cord, thread, or wire, c, around gether to form a tapering elastic rod, which I them. In Figs. 2 and 4 only the splints b of term featherbone, and which is designed quills are shown as used in building up the 6o I 5 as a substitute for steel, rattan, and whaletapering elastic rod there represented, the

bone, heretofore used as a lling for whips. same being arranged in diminishing quanti- Reference is to be had to the accompanying ties toward the smaller end or portion of the drawings, forming a part of this specification, rod and being arranged so as to overlap one in which similar letters of reference indicate another or break joint, as shown by their ends 65 2o corresponding parts in all the figures. marked s, for the purpose of establishing con- Figure lrepresents a longitudinal view of tinuity throughout the whole length ofthe rod. a finished whip or portion of awhip made with In Figs. 3 and 5 both whole quills b and quillmy improved featherbone lling. Figs'. 2 and splints b,similarly arranged and combined, are" 3 are longitudinal views upon a larger scale of used. An elastic tapering rod having thus .7o 25 diierentlengths or sections of the filling, showbeen built up and its quills or quill splints j ing different ways in which the featherbone joined or bound together, as described, the filling may be built up of splints or quills and whip of which said rod forms the stiffener may splints; and Figs. 4- and 5 are transverse secbe completed in the usual or any approved tions of Figs. 2 and 3, respectively. manner--as, for instance, by covering said ll- 75 3o In the manufacture of the improved elastic ing with cloth, buckskin, or other material,

rod or filling I propose to utilize the quill por- `and the braid-end cover put on by an ordinary tions of feathers (afterthey have been stripped) whip-machine, and after this the usual final of turkeys, geese, chickens, and other fowls or finish of water-proof varnish applied to the birds. Said quills may either be used in their exterior. l 8o 35 whole form or in the form of splints or fibers Having thus described my invention, I claim produced by splitting or otherwise reducing as new and desire to secure byLetters Patentthe quills,-or in both forms combined. This A whip or whip-section having an elastic in some cases will depend upon the size of the filling composed of quills or quill splints, or whip or portion of the whip to which the both, arranged to overlap and break jointwith 85 4o featherbone is applied. Thus the whip may one another, and bound together to form a tabe made, for instance, either a full-bone one, a pering elastic rod, essentially as described. half-bone one, or a quarter-bone one, and in f T the thicker portions of the whip whole quills g EDNVARD K' WARREN maybe more or less used, while in the smaller XVitnesses: y 45 or hner tapering portions of it quill splints HENRY CHAMEERLAIN, will be found preferable. The quills or splints 'ARTHUR C. PAINE. 

